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Fluid Flow and Inclusion Motion in a Five-Strand Continuous Casting Tundish

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The tundish in the current study was for a five-strand billet continuous caster. The effect of closing different outlets on the fluid flow, temperature and inclusion removal was investigated. The top surface level fluctuations at the inlet zone isolated by the tall turbulence inhibitor weir was very severe and caused slag entrainment. The simulation shows that the highest level fluctuation was 0.87 mm while the lowest one was -0.389 mm. The fraction of inclusions entering the outlet far away from the inlet was much higher than entering other outlets. Closing any strand had a certain effect on the removal of inclusions to the top and on the fraction of inclusions to different strands. The temperature difference between inlet and outlet of tundish was increased by closing outlets for the current tundish and the increase of maximal temperature difference was 1~2 K.

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  1. School of Ecological and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Abulikemu Yasen & Dongteng Pan

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  1. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

    Laurentiu Nastac (Associate Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Key FEF Professor and the Director of the Solidification Laboratory and the UA-COE foundry) (Associate Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Key FEF Professor and the Director of the Solidification Laboratory and the UA-COE foundry)

  2. University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

    Lifeng Zhang (Professor and the Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, Distinguished Professor) (Professor and the Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, Distinguished Professor)

  3. Yangtze River Scholars, China

    Lifeng Zhang (Professor and the Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, Distinguished Professor) (Professor and the Dean of the School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering, Distinguished Professor)

  4. University of Illinois, USA

    Brian G. Thomas (Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Continuous Casting Consortium) (Gauthier Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Continuous Casting Consortium)

  5. Northeastern University (NEU), Shenyang, China

    Miaoyong Zhu (Professor and Dean of Metallurgy School (MS) (Professor and Dean of Metallurgy School (MS)

  6. Metallurgy Department, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria

    Andreas Ludwig (Full Professor) (Full Professor)

  7. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

    Adrian S. Sabau (Senior Research Staff Member) (Senior Research Staff Member)

  8. University of Greenwich, London, UK

    Koulis Pericleous (Chair of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Director of the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis) (Chair of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Director of the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis)

  9. Ecole des Mines de Nancy (Lorraine University), France

    Hervé Combeau (professor) (professor)

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Yasen, A., Pan, D. (2016). Fluid Flow and Inclusion Motion in a Five-Strand Continuous Casting Tundish. In: Nastac, L., et al. CFD Modeling and Simulation in Materials Processing 2016. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65133-0_3

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